TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1955)

All Play, No Work (Continued from page 66) sometimes be surprised at the number of doors it has opened up." The most notable door a hobby has opened for Bill is that of broadcasting itelf. "Belonging to a camera club in school started it," he recalls. "My father, who was an automobile dealer in Pittsburgh, built a darkroom for me on the second floor of the garage. Some of my pictures were published in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Then they hired me, but I never worked as a photographer. I took the job only because they also had a radio station, WWSW, and I was immediately transferred to it. I had an all-night discjockey show." The show, too, went into the hobby classification, for Mr. and Mrs. Cullen wanted their only son to be a doctor. "As I saw it at that time," Bill says, "my major job was to get my M.D. I was in pre-med school and doing well when I realized I didn't want to heal, I wanted to entertain." Immediately, he changed his direction. "For four years I applied myself to radio. I learned all I could in Pittsburgh, then came to New York and started making that learning pay off." Here, again, a hobby diverted him. Says Bill, "I had learned to fly before I was even of legal age. A pilot, who was a friend of my father, took me up. I soloed at sixteen. Since I stayed crazy about airplanes, I put some of my radio dough into a charter service." The charter service brought problems and Bill concentrated on licking them until the day he asked himself what would happen when the business turned profitable. "That was the second time a hobby showed me what I did not want to do," he remarks. "It cost me a sum of money, but it was worth it, for I stayed where I belonged and now fly only for fun. Nothing has ever really tempted me away from radio and TV." Radio and TV sponsors, listeners and viewers reciprocate. By rewarding him with many shows, they have indicated they are not likely to be tempted away from Bill. Bill relishes every one and whenever the pace gets hectic, he applies his magic antidote for tension — hobbies. Bill defines a hobby as "anything you don't have to do." In addition to flying and photography, his include oil painting, carving boats, reading, skeet shooting and raising tropical fish. His interest in any one is intense, but intermittent. When reading takes his fancy, he will, for a period, devour every book in sight, then stop reading for a month or two and scarcely glance at a newspaper. "I'm a diversifier," he says. "I'll give myself to anything only until it starts to hurt. Then I change. It's a recipe for total enjoyment." He suspects, too, that such enthusiasm, which usually is the luxury of the amateur only, also accounts for his zest for radio and television. "I like things to come easily. When I start to hurt my head thinking, I'm through. And broadcasting is always fun. There isn't anyone I know who doesn't work harder than I do. 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